A recent Supreme Court ruling threatens agents' ability to display open house signs.

Municipalities will be reviewing sign codes and may remove real estate exemptions for expediency.

The ruling allows exemptions for compelling state interests, and real estate signage has been cited as supporting Fair Housing laws.

Open house signs dot the sidewalks on a weekend morning — it’s a sight of familiarity for our clients and our businesses. Based on a recent legal ruling, those signs might disappear in short order. That’s unless Realtor associations nationwide step up quickly to help their local governments identify the language in the ruling that supports open house sign exemptions in sign codes.